Analysis and prediction of Billboard’s next hit songs (part 1)

John Boby Mesadieu
Towards Data Science
10 min readSep 1, 2020

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Using Spotify and Billboard’s data to understand what makes a song a hit.

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Thousands of songs are released every year around the world. Some are very successful in the music industry; others less so. It is a fact that being successful in this industry remains a difficult task. Investing in the production of a song requires a variety of activities and can…

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